linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2

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Message-ID: <20090205213744.GA9814@mit.edu>
Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:37:44 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mfasheh@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> 

>   the three patches below fix a bug in
> jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() that could possibly lead to
> NULL pointer dereference. The question is how to merge the fix as it
> changes the prototype of the function and both ext4 and ocfs2 use
> it.  Mark, Mingming, any suggestions?

Jan, how how easy is it to hit this?  Do you believe we should try to
get this in for 2.6.29?  I got some final things to push to Linus so
I can also push it via the ext4 tree.  I doubt it will conflict with
> anything in my tree, either.

						- Ted
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